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MRAM (or Magnetic Random-Access Memory)

You know what this means?!
The lovely magnets, oh my... They've done a lot for our lifes! smaller computer technologies, smaller cellphones, smaller everything, tech where you didnt had it before, etc.

NOW Magnetic RAM will store the ram data and it will STAY there, so booting a system will be a flash! (like if you ever experienced into a usb 2.0 pen drive, to have win98 lite installed, it boots in a second or two).

Think about the possibilities as well!

I got no more info about this, but just knowing its on the works, makes me happy. although I wont have it even in 3 years

> if you ever experienced into a usb 2.0 pen drive, to have win98 lite
> installed, it boots in a second or two

Are you serious? So if I buy a 1 GB USB drive, I could install Windows on it,
then take it to my friend's place and boot up with it, with all my apps and so
on installed? This is FANTASTIC! Is that what you mean?

Eh no its not, get all your sarcasm into a big bag and put it down your!!!

Im talking about pendrives, digital storing, usb drives are not DIGITAL they are just IDE Drives into a case with USB support, thats ABOUT ALL THEY OFFER.

Jeesus!! the point of the thread is about MRAM anyway, which means that if you turn your pc off, the next time you boot it will still have everything stored, so the boot will be fast, and if you had a pr0n pic into clipboard, it will still be there.

> get all your sarcasm into a big bag and put it down your!!!

I wasn't being sarcastic... I'm dead serious. Isn't it possible to boot from a
USB drive? I can't see why not. I think this is an awesome idea. Seriously!

It IS possible to boot from a usb digital storage unit yes
Theres even a company selling micro-PCs which was my idea and got ripped off but oh well I cant say I worked for it (never patented anything).

They are the guys who created win98 optimizers (for making win98 lite, which is about 100mb or less, I got it down to 80mb if I remember well, for a customer's very old pc, he needed more space and didnt used all the craps win98se had so simply took them off and added some of my own PB programs for unzipping, etc. fully functional pc in 100mb -_-

Now adays theres SD cards of 1gb.
You can boot from a pendrive (which reads an SD card). but for making usb booteable you need a set of dos drivers (so kinda you boot dos, boot the drivers and once you got access to the usb drive as if it was a real harddrive, you boot windows) this was done automatically.

Its the fastest thing i've seen so far, but got no money for a 1gb SD or maybe 2 (imagine this: 1 of this SD you use it for the XP OS, of course, you will make it lite taking out all the stuff you dont really need, lets say you'll use this pc for a specific task, then take out all the crap you dont need. later get a mini atx PSU and motherboard, with a duron processor (meh i'd put the latest amd 64 dualcore if you ask me -but no money- ). then you got another usb drive with 1gb sd in, this will be your fast-access drive (for swap files, hibernation files, temp files, thats important to have a fast access drive and using another SD for this will make the job up to 1gb).

You could put all this into a small box (ala mini mac) but PC.

YES Its possible, but I dont have money for making a prototype.

YES Theres a company which made this, this is why im telling a rough of my basic idea, because its not really plausible anymore (cant make money out of this, ok I could but if they patented it already, im lost).

Seems that if you got a brilliant mind in this life, and got no money, its like having no mind at all. Get an investor ? nah no one believes in something they cant see

I wonder if someone would like to work on this, I have drivers and all software needed nor the latest hardware, nor the SD cards, because im cheap this year.

Bootable USB Flash Drive are pretty cool, i can't believe you've never heard of this before.

http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~shaher/Bootable_USB.html

many boards do support booting from usb these days (my mainboard does)

mem ram... don't tell me it's the return of bubble memory?

4 years ago they didnt
4 years ago I had to make my own booteable system for usb
2 years ago I saw that "company" doing what I was doing
2 years ago I got nuts

Return of nothing
this are magnetic chips on the ram. which digitally stores its contents, I dont know if they'll be there for storing as the current chips, but this magnetic ones also means a heck of a lot more space and cheaper.

I dont know if some university is experimenting with this or some important lab.

But soon (an year? 2 ? ) you'll have it on your sys for sure

> Seems that if you got a brilliant mind in this life, and got no money, its like
> having no mind at all

I agree! I've got many ideas but no way to bring them to fruition.

Like what Ideas?

Another Update:

IBM, Infineon e Macronix have announced they are researching phase-change memory (PCM) that uses cristals and laser to store and retrieve information.

Primary tests indicate a huge speed increase and larger storage sizes due to the bigger density of data that can be stored.

Data is stored permanent until erased

FYI, using a flash memory based drive to run an OS is cool, however there are some caveats.

1. You have a limited number of write/erase times for flash. Putting swap on it is probably not going to work out well. In fact, I've heard of people killing their flash in several weeks due to having swap on. If you can remove swap/virual memory, or depending upon the OS you are using where you can put swap on a ramdrive( wacky), do it.

2. If you go to a significantly different system, expect to have Windows thrash around installin drives it can find on the flash drive for the different chipsets on this computer compared to the computer last booted on.
That can eat up a lot of storage.

More stuff, but those are the high-lights